Also known as Ciula Mica; Ciula Mică; Pârâul Vârtopilor, Kadic-Vartopi, CM01

Where: Hunedoara, Romania (45.6° N, 22.8° E: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 21.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Member (Densuş-Ciula Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Close to the base of the Densuș-Ciula succession, in the basal part of the ‘middle member’, and are thus most probably of earliest to early Maastrichtian in age (Csiki-Sava et al., 2016). This age assessment is congruent with the 71.3+/-1.6 Ma K-Ar radiometric age reported by Bojar et al. (2011) from a tuff layer situated slightly to the west (Botfalvai et al. 2021)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; concretionary, red claystone and gray, green, silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Kadić, Mamulea? in 1909-1915, 1950?

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: O. Kadić. 1917. Bericht über meine Ausgrabungen im Jahre 1915 [Report on my excavations in 1915]. Jahresberichte der Königlich Ungarischen Geologischen Reichsanstalt 1915(2):610-618 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 163328: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.10.2014, edited by Philip Mannion

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